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Books | Mar 5, 2019

Swan Song by Kelleigh Greenberg-Jephcott featured on the 2019 Women’s Prize for Fiction longlist

Kelleigh Greenberg-Jephcott’s debut novel Swan Song has been featured on the 2019 Women’s Prize for Fiction longlist.

The Women’s Prize celebrates excellence, originality and accessibility in writingby women in English from throughout the world. Also featured on the longlistare Sally Rooney, Diana Evans and Madeline Miller.

The result of ten years of research, SWAN SONG tells the tragic story of TrumanCapote, the literary icon of his age, and the beautiful, wealthy, vulnerablewomen he called his Swans. After two decades of cultivating intimatefriendships and high-end life-style, Capote detonated a literary grenade, revealingthe intimate secrets of his Swans in print, and forever rupturing the literarycircle he had worked so hard to infiltrate. He was ostracised and never quiterecovered from this act of public humiliation and social sabotage.

A dazzling debut about the line between gossip and slander, self-creation andself-preservation, SWAN SONG was published last year to much acclaim. In thewords of Rose Tremain, this is 'a whirlwind of a first novel. There is greatpathos in the Swans’ woundings and in their inevitable decline. And thecharacter of Truman himself shimmers through the novel in a wonderful blaze ofeccentricity and excess. Outstanding.'

The 2019 Women’s Prize for Fiction shortlist will be announced on 29th April and the winner will be awarded on 5th June at an awards ceremony in London.